Ports for buildbot 3

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 20, 2021, at 08:39, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Buildbot 3 (that is slightly incompatible with buildbot 2) has
> recently been released.
> 
> We currently ship:
> - buildbot-0.8, buildbot-slave-0.8
> - buildbot, buildbot-worker (+ dependencies) that provide version 2
> 
> So we are basically lacking buildbot 1.x and the new 3.x.
> 
> I don't see any need to ship version 1.x which is very similar to 2.x,
> but version 3.x removed a lot of deprecated APIs (from what I
> understand a well-written configuration should still work on 3.x, so
> it's not as bad as the migration from 0.8 to 1.x).
> 
> I would like to update to version 3.x, but I would be grateful for
> agreement about what ports we want to end up with before doing any
> changes to the ports.
> 
> (I'm still trying to figure out whether buildbot-worker 3.x is
> incompatible with buildbot master 1.x or 2.x. If it's compatible, we
> don't need to provide version 2 of the worker.)

I'd probably just update buildbot and buildbot-worker to version 3 and not offer version 2 anymore unless someone requests it.